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2022-06-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Lithuanian Blockade of Kaliningrad Violates EU Commitments

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Posted by Fred 2022-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Kaliningrad formerly the state of East Prussia and German for hundreds of years. Taken by Russia at the end of WW2, at which time they ethnically cleansed the place imposing their alphabet, language, and social order upon the inhabitants. When the Ukrainians do this in their territory, its call radical nationalism by Moscow and its trolls.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-19 07:46|| 2022-06-19 07:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Lithuanians got some stones.

Posted by jpal 2022-06-19 09:57|| 2022-06-19 09:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Kaliningrad would make a nice addition to Poland.

Posted by irish rage boy 2022-06-19 11:09|| 2022-06-19 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 ...they already got Silesia from the Germans as their part of 'winnings' of WWII (actually compensation for Stalin getting to keep the part he took in 1939 with the Germans). Did the same thing as the Russians installing their language and culture upon those who remained.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-19 14:23|| 2022-06-19 14:23|| Front Page Top

#5 ^^^^

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-06-19 14:25|| 2022-06-19 14:25|| Front Page Top

#6 The Russians occupied East Prussia because it was the source of endless invasions which they repulsed again and again at great cost. It's like how we occupied Germany so it wouldn't start another war.

Both strategies worked.

Posted by Pholing Crererong6639 2022-06-19 15:59|| 2022-06-19 15:59|| Front Page Top

#7 ...yes, but we didn't impose English on them or had them rename their towns in a new tongue.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-19 16:58|| 2022-06-19 16:58|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 ...yes, but we didn't impose English on them

If Mark Twain had been President, we would have. He hated the German language.

Posted by SteveS 2022-06-19 19:04|| 2022-06-19 19:04|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^ He hated going to sleep with the subject and waking up with the verb.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-06-19 23:40|| 2022-06-19 23:40|| Front Page Top

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